genuine advantage virus released be ware

Outlaw Wizard · Jul 11, 2006

there is a virus out that is mascuradeing as a genuine advantage update . it uses chat prorgrams to infect computers .so beware of genuine advantage updates .

her is more info

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/w32cuebotk.html

6ghztofreedom · Jul 11, 2006

It spreads via AOL Instant Messenger... I don't think Microsoft updates windows via AIM lol... Looks to me like another typical AIM Virus that just names itself as a WGA process when you get infected with it.

pik4chu · Jul 11, 2006

I thought most people felt WGA already was a virus? :lol: Anyways, hopefully most people take notice to the fact that its not windows, but then there wouldn't be many virii at all if people stopped to think about this stuff before clicking on something. I am sure this is the first in a long line of soon to come vulnerabilities and masquerades for the WGA software/"feature".

Evnas · Jul 11, 2006

Ooh! Ooh! Someone share it with me. I want to see the look on its face when it encounters a non-Windows OS :attn:

Outlaw Wizard · Jul 11, 2006

just wait till it becomes a port virus . i think it is funny that someone made a virus that says it is ginuine advangage .one thing that surprises me is that no one has use the automatic updates to sent viuses to everone .

Captain Newbie · Jul 12, 2006

pik4chu said:
I thought most people felt WGA already was a virus? :lol: Anyways, hopefully most people take notice to the fact that its not windows, but then there wouldn't be many virii at all if people stopped to think about this stuff before clicking on something. I am sure this is the first in a long line of soon to come vulnerabilities and masquerades for the WGA software/"feature".

It meets the CFAA definition of malicious code[1], and meets the Washington State definition of spyware.

[1] This is a reach; while it is not executed without the express consent of the system owner, WGA does not fully disclose what it does, and so could be considered harmful.

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